Personal Carer

About the Employer

Employer has an active lifestyle. Employer work from home 3 days a week, and on all other days have sports in Virgin Active gym, physio, and meetings with friends. She enjoys occasional day trip the nearby lake, park or the cinema/theatre, etc. She is a registered nutritionist and enjoy nice food. Employer has a neck injury, but she doesn’t use a hoist and manage transfers on her own. However, she needs PA  to have a person near me just in case.

Main Duties

• Housework – hovering, tidying the house once a week
• Meal Prep – quick lunches such as sandwiches, toast
• Personal care - intermittent catheterisation, manual evacuation
• Support with shopping
• Administration work
• Accessing the community
• Accompanying to appointments
• Booking appointments
• Support with showering – standing near when employer transfers to the shower chair, wheel employer to the shower and come back after 10-15 min to help with towels.
• Support with dressing (bottoms)
• Daily stretching (10 min in the morning and 10 before bed)
• Daily exercises/physio (support using a standing frame, assisting with some exercises 20 – 30 min p/day)
• Assistance with manual wheelchair when going out.

Ideal PA

• Previous experience working with SCI
• Good communication
• Good humour
• Sociable
• Able to work independently, little assistance required
• Good organizational skills
• Long term 

Required

• DBS Check
• 2 References from previous workplace or current workplace
• Long term employment
• Flexible working hours
• Multitasker
• Nonsmoker
• Full UK license
• Own vehicle
• Fit and active, to be able to keep up with employer’s active lifestyle

Working Hours / Salary

• Live-in PA. 2-3 weeks on, 2-3 weeks off. Schedule can be negotiable
• 11 hours per day, 3h paid beak (14hours in total)
• £18 p/hour